ALPINE – With the smooth sounds of Michael Bublé filling the auditorium, Justin Sullivan, 12, linked arms with Hannah Hickman, 10, who gave him a small smile. He escorted her across the room and placed his hand across her back as she rested hers on his shoulder. The two laced fingers and began to move to the music.

OCEANSIDE – Educators are clamping down on student protests, banning students from bringing flags, signs or placards onto campuses. Oceanside students also are forbidden from using face paint or attire to express their position on the immigration legislation that has ignited student protests throughout San Diego County.

A former Qualcomm executive has given $1 million to the Arc of San Diego to boost its campaign to renovate facilities that help the developmentally disabled. The gift from former Qualcomm President Richard Sulpizio and his wife, Gaby, brings the organization nearly halfway to its $3 million fundraising goal for its first phase of renovation.

San Diego will forfeit millions of dollars in affordable housing subsidies under a proposal the City Council approved yesterday to settle a lawsuit filed by home builders. The 5-3 vote stemmed from a dispute over the city's nearly three-year-old inclusionary housing ordinance that requires developers to set aside a percentage of homes in their projects for low-and moderate-income households.

To some, a proposed 12-story housing and retail complex on University Avenue may seem out of place in the heart of Hillcrest. But many are willing to look past that in exchange for a promise to build more than 120 additional public parking spaces in a neighborhood with a shortage of spots.

A group of San Diego scientists in the drug discovery business have a board meeting like few others. They congregate in the water at dawn on their surfboards. While waiting to catch waves, they exchange the latest drug development news.